Re: Multiple new pterosaurs

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

> In a review of pterosaur phylogeny, Kellner proposes the
> new names Asiaticognathidae (_Batrachognathus_ +
> _Dendrorhynchoides_)

OK, time to dust off the ICZN rule book and indulge in some nomenclatural 
nit-picking....

Umm... doesn't the name Asiatognathidae require that there already be an 
_Asiatognathus_?  (there isn't, AFAIK.)  The thing is, the -idae ending 
implies that this is a family-level taxon, and thus must be derived from an 
included genus.  Ditto for Novialoidea, which must be treated as a 
superfamily based on its -oidea suffix, irrespective of its intended 
designation.  (I would guess Novialoidea means "new winged forms", or some 
such.)

> On the subject of pterosaurs, there was an article all about
> Dave Peters' SVP presentation in The Times' Higher
> Education Supplement last week. Without spilling the
> beans, I will say that it took a somewhat err, critical, view of
> Dave's research.

You could have bowled me over with a feather....



Tim

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